Timely appeal

It’s a great step taken by the United Nations and appealed to the world to provide $4.3 billion to help millions in war-torn Yemen. On a humanitarian ground it’s important to provide aid to the war-torn Yemen to save precious lives, which are suffering from hunger (“UN appeals for $4.3 billion to help millions in war-torn Yemen,” Feb.27, Gulf Today website).

According to the report, the United Nations said it needed $4.3 billion this year to help millions of people in war-ravaged Yemen, ahead of a donors’ conference on Monday.

Aid agencies need the money to help more than 17 million people in the country, which has been devastated by an eight-year civil war.

The conflict has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and plunged the poorest country on the Arabian Peninsula into one of the world’s worst humanitarian tragedies. Yemen is also at the forefront of the climate crisis, with severe drought and flooding threatening lives, the UN said.

Innocent people are dying of hunger every day in war-torn Yemen. I hope the world will support the appeal by the United Nations to help vulnerable people of Yemen in their hard times. It’s a big cause to save people’s lives. According to the Islamic saying, the saving of even one human being from death is like saving the whole mankind.

Hameed Brohi,
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